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Wow!

Great deal of information, I’m impressed! Thank you, BARKAS!

I wonder if there’s a possibility of writing down (in the diary) an event happened few days before. I found similar effect dated Sep. 6, 1944 – there was one of partisan actions, but Home Army veterans say, it was at the end of August, not September.
So, theoretically, the plane could have crashed few days earlier, and the author found out about it and mentioned it later. Could you check the records for the second half of July, please?

The information about Bachnick and Eberhard I gave above are from Polish book “Liberator in Gorce Mts”, and there’s a footnote to Czech author Jiří Rajlich (“Mustangs over Protectorate”).
Here’s an information about Eberhard’s plane crash place (Kalwaria). Bachnick’s is situated in “Myslenice”, which is mistaken with similar town name Myslowice. I have not Rajlich’s book and I cannot say, if this mistake is his own, or it was made by the team of Polish authors. I live near Myslenice and there’s no railway.
I’ve searched the web with some pilot names from the list above and I found an information, that Lt. Hasso Hilgendorff crashed in Nyőgér (Hungary). It’s 200 kms south of Cracow and probably is not connected with airbattles with 8th AF planes, but with 15th AF fighters escorting mission to Blechhammer, which happened the same day.
Note that in your excellent list probably every loss over enemy lines is described as “Russland”, over Cracow as “Poland”, and over the whole area further south (probably covering Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and southern Poland) as “Rumania”.

Regarding this, from the Aug. 6, 1944 records Lt. Günther’s crash "in Rumania" (as quite well described) doesn’t concern the incident form Raciechowice, but Uffz. Jürgen’s is possible – pilot was lightly injured (burned), although at the photos I can see not very young Obergefreiter. I’ll follow this clue.

I’ve checked the mission from Aug. 22, 1944 in Alfred Konieczny book “Silesia and airwar in 1940-44”.
He describes that there were some air battles this day:
-A formation of B-17s attacking Odertal was attacked between Graz and Balaton, 7 German planes claimed by the gunners.
-A formation of B-24s and P-51s raiding to Blechhammer was heavily attacked in target area, 6 German planes claimed by the escort, some B-24s and 2 P-51s were lost. Unfortunately there’s nothing about any dogfight in Cracow area, but of course I’ll be searching for any information about it.

What does it mean “Luftkampf FSA” at Eberhard’s record?

And what about pilot rank? Wasn’t Obergefreiter too low for a combat pilot? I found some pilots with this rank, but, generally, Uffz./Fhr. or higher is much more often.
At the photos, he doesn’t look very young. Maybe he was from auxiliary personnel, making for example missions such as plane transfers from unit to unit?

Best regards,
Piotr